[CentOS] best practice: how to setup a central "network installation server"?

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
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>     kickstart file, if you are familiar with text based configurations?
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> Is kickstart REALLY the only way? 
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> How do I configure the server so that the client can use network boot, 
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Hi

You can use PXE. You have to set up a tftp and a DHCP server. Sometimes 
you have to enable PXE in the BIOS - I always to do this with Dell machines.

Regards

mg.